Regarded as a very prestigious acquisition, INS Kalvari is the most potent platform to have been constructed in India. The construction of the Submarine, designated as MDL Yard 11875 commenced with the first cutting of steel at MDL on 14 Dec 2006. The ‘Boot Together’ of the submarine wherein the five separate sections were welded into one was completed on 30 Jul 2014

Russian state atomic energy corporation Rosatom on Tuesday announced a historic first in its record of building nuclear power plants with the launch of two reactors at home in the span of a week earlier this month.

Bringing a generational shift in the Congress, Rahul Gandhi was on Monday elected as the party president. It wasn't much of a fight for him as the 47-year-old scion of the Nehru-Gandhi family was the lone candidate in the fray.
Rahul Gandhi will collect the certificate formally declaring his ascension to the post on December 16, party's central election authority head Mullappally Ramachandran said today.
The son of Rajiv and Sonia Gandhi, Rahul will succeed his mother, who remained in the post for 19 years.
The political journey of Rahul Gandhi began in 2004 when he first contested Lok Sabha election from Amethi, a family bastion in Uttar Pradesh.
Here is a timeline of Rahul Gandhi’s 13-year-long political journey:
2004: After much convincing from mother Sonia Gandhi, Rahul contests the Lok Sabha election from Amethi.
2006: Sonia Gandhi wins Raebareli by-election with a record margin of 4.17 lakh votes as Rahul leads her campaign. Mother indicates that Rahul "may" be given organisational ...

The International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN) is set to accept on Sunday the highly-coveted 2017 Nobel Peace Prize here for its work in bringing attention to the consequences of the use of nuclear arms and for promoting a treaty-based prohibition on nuclear weapons.

All nuclear power plants being developed by Russia, including the one at Kudankulam in Tamil Nadu, meet all post-Fukushima safety standards and would be able to withstand external influence like an earthquake or a tsunami, an official of Russia's Rosatom State Atomic Energy Corp said on Wednesday.

Decades of state investment in planning and science propelled the Soviet Union to the forefront in a wide spectrum of fields, notably mathematics, physiology, geology, aerodynamics and space, and proved that science could be planned and its fruits made available to society at large. By S. CHATTERJEE